The post from CAS Dean Andrew Marcus on his blog is below. He doesn’t allow public comments, so I’ll respond here. You can too. There is also a change.org petition, with 232 signatures so far. To: CAS Dean <[email protected]> Andrew, your post is outrageous. Yes, dressing up in blackface, in…
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Andrew Theen has the story in the Oregonian: Measure 97’s failure creates tough decisions for Oregon lawmakers next year, but the state’s public university presidents say one choice should be clear: Keep funding higher education. Oregon’s seven public university presidents signed a joint letter Wednesday asking for a “minimum” of $100…
The RG has the news here: “There was a little unkind language, so there may be damage to certain people’s egos if they were listening. I don’t think I was involved in any of the language, so that’s also good,” [President Schill] said.
Just kidding, that’s who Interim President Scott Coltrane and Interim General Counsel Doug Park hired to investigate me over the presidential archives, along with Hershner Hunter’s Amanda Walkup. President Schill and GC Kevin Reed have hired Edwin Harnden (http://www.barran.com/our-team/edwin-a-harnden/) and Shayda Le (http://www.barran.com/our-team/shayda-zaerpoor-le/) to investigate the professor over the blackface incident. They sure look…
The Oregonian has the report here. Tough news for the UO, our students, and the Duck athletic program we all subsidize. The good news is that Phil Knight has offered to cough up enough money to buy out Coach Helfrich, who will have taken $20M off us and our Board of Trustees before…
11/8/2016 update: Market predictions are not worth a shit. 11/7/2016: Betting market predicts Clinton + Dem Senate, S&P up 2.2% Data from predictwise.com, based mostly on the $140M gambled on betfair.com so far:
I confess I fell hook line and sinker for Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s story, “A Rape on Campus”. In my defense I grew up in Charlottesville, went to parties on fraternity row, and know of one fraternity gang rape from back in the day that was very similar (and never…
Wed Nov 16th, at the Eugene Hilton: Program at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_ug50TjNFiINVlqMDk2ZG14UnM/view
Does UO policy prohibit faculty from wearing blackface? There’s training for that: Prohibited Discrimination Reporting Category: Diversity Department: VP Student Life Administration Description: Prohibited Discrimination Reporting: Understanding Your Role in Reporting Prohibited Discrimination and Harassment. In this introductory training, we will discuss University policies prohibiting discrimination and harassment, types of behavior…
More great RG headlines: “Putting the fun — and education — in fungi”, here. “Here’s a mushroom that will give you a fun trip, and here’s one that going to kill you,” ,,, “Someone wants to buy old city dump near Creswell”, here. Oregon men, and dog, to face jury of their peers…
11/4/2016 update: In case you are confused about why this blackface incident was so genuinely disturbing, Michael Hames-García (Professor of Ethnic Studies) has an excellent Open Letter to Pres Schill (and us all) in the Daily Emerald. Read it all, here is an excerpt: … Part of the problem with blackface is that white…
The UO Police Department somehow took over the investigation started by the EPD of the first player. 10 weeks later they still haven’t finished it. Now they’ve got a new arrest to deal with.
The student-run Emerald posts the number of views for each story. 173 for football, 613 for free speech (which has been up a few more days):
10/30/2016: First it was the survey revealing that students cared more about UO’s Urban Farm Program than big-time college sports. Now, according to sports reporter Kenny Jacoby in the Daily Emerald and his report on the brief student turnout for the Arizona State game, the list of things our students prefer to watching the Ducks has grown to include a nap, Halloween, and yes, homework:
Oregon was winning 30-22 when masses of students started heading for the exits. I was curious why they chose this point in the game to leave, with the Ducks on the verge of their first win since Sept. 10. So I went down to the concourse level, stood at the top of the stairs above the South Gate and asked departing students why they were leaving. Here are some of their responses:
“I’m really, really high, and I want to lie down,” the first student said.
“It’s Halloween weekend,” said another.
“We’re tired from last night. We’re trying to nap and recover before going out to tonight. I just turned 21.”
“We’re tired. I have homework to do.”
Which does raise the question of why the ASUO is paying Rob Mullens, Eric Roedl and the Duck sports enterprise $1.7M for “free” tickets. More on that here.
9/15/2015: UO’s urban farm brings in more students than Duck athletics
And, according to the NYT, it’s part of a movement. UO’s Landscape Architecture department is now running two sections, just a few slots left:
Not bad compared to student attendance at Dana Altman’s basketball games.
2/27/14: UO students say “sorry Ducks, we’re just not that into you.”
10/30/2016 update: Long story after the break, which I suppose is a good thing for those that bill by the hour.
The latest is that the judge has given UO’s hired lawyers an extension from 10/28 until 12/2 to respond to the players lawyers’ response to the judge’s response to the UO lawyers’ request for dismissal, as well as an extension to respond to the players lawyers’ 3rd complaint, which of course was amended in response to the UO lawyers’ response to the players lawyer’s 2nd complaint. In case that’s not perfectly clear, here’s a free link to the docket, from the freelaw.org hack of the federal court’s paywalled database. Oh, wait, there are two dockets – maybe the links you want are here.
10/11/2016: Dana Altman’s players refile discrimination complaint against Gottfredson, UO